The biggest and clearest benefit of a diet consisting of a large amount of fresh, sprouted foods is this: they are simply the freshest vegetable you can get anywhere on the planet without growing a full on vegetable garden. Growing sprouts can be done right in your own home, sometimes even on your kitchen counter, so rather than several hundred miles from the farm to your plate it is a few feet. This means less of a carbon footprint on the earth and on your body.
Secondly, most of the foods we eat today are either acidic or neutral, with very little alkaline balanced foods. Many researchers have noted the negative effects on the body when an overabundance of acidic food in a persons diet forces the body to produce an overabundance of digestive enzymes, which outside of the body are only found in raw vegetables, including sprouts. When the body has to produce a huge amount of digestive enzymes to keep up with the acidic food we eat, without the supply being replenished from time to time, its ability to manufacture the myriad of other enzymes needed by the body to function properly is diminished.
The visible effects of aging such as wrinkling skin, decreased energy, and increasingly fragile bones are largely caused by the bodies decreased ability to create enzymes (there are many other factors of course but this is a big one). Naturally taking as much of the load off the body as possible by eating foods rich in enzymes is going to lighten the bodies load, increase the available non-digestive enzymes, and slow down the aging process. This is something that can help literally anyone, from infants to seniors, live a healthier and more productive life.
This is where growing sprouts comes in. Sprouts themselves are quite alkaline, are very high in enzymes and eating them helps maintain the acid alkaline balance in the body. In doing so, the need for the body to produce excessive amounts of digestive enzymes is alleviated, allowing the body to produce the other enzymes it requires to promote good all round health and balance. Given that a sprouter can be fast, simple and low cost to set-up, sprouts are the ideal food to compliment your diet with, in order to promote and enhance healthy bodily processes and maintain or improve your acid alkaline balance.
